The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERAfter long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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